Therapeutic hypothermia-induced electrocardiographic changes and relations to in-hospital mortality.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Therapeutic hypothermia improves survival for selected patients who remain comatose after cardiac arrest. Hypothermia triggers changes in electrocardiographic (ECG) parameters; however, the association of these changes to in-hospital mortality remains unclear.

Hypothesis

QT interval changes induced by therapeutic hypothermia are not associated with in-hospital mortality.

Methods

We retrospectively compared precooling ECG parameters to ECG parameters during hypothermia on all consecutive patients with available information who received hypothermia at our academic medical center between December 2006 and July 2012 (N = 101; 24% women). Paired 2-sample t test was used to compare precooling vs cooling ECG parameters. In-hospital mortality related to ECG paramet

SUBMITTER: Lam DH 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6649424 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature